Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:26:04 +0900 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Modular type GENERIC? Message-ID: <d763ac660802240226s250964efv1fd002196a90c110@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
G'day, I was just wondering why we're not shipping a GENERIC type configuration that simply loads the modules at startup, rather than a statically linked kernel. I thought that was a large part of the push for the modular framework in years past. As a quick experiment, I trimmed all the modular devices out of RELENG_7 GENERIC into a "BASE" configuration file and filled /boot/loader.conf with modules relevant to my system. Everything booted just fine. How feasible do people think it would be to ship a "GENERIC" configuration which simply includes all the devices in a default module list, and users can select/deselect modules they wish to load? Here's the kernel and loader configuration files I'm using just on my system. I think acpi_load is a bit extraneous as acpi is included in the amd64 DEFAULTS. http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/BASE.txt http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/loader.conf -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?d763ac660802240226s250964efv1fd002196a90c110>